Win2D version 1.20.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. Changes in this release: The image effects that were added in Windows 10 Anniversary Edition (AlphaMaskEffect, CrossFadeEffect, OpacityEffect, and TintEffect) are no longer marked as experimental. Made sure CanvasControl::Changed always executes on the UI thread. This fixes a crash…

Win2D version 1.19.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. This release adds four new image effects: AlphaMaskEffect, CrossFadeEffect, OpacityEffect, and TintEffect. These are new in the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition version of Direct2D, so are not supported on older versions of Windows. They are just helpers that make…

Win2D version 1.18.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. This release fixes a reentrancy bug in CanvasAnimatedControl. It also improves the SpriteBatch.Draw docs, explaining how to convert Windows.UI.Color values into a Vector4 tint parameter. Many thanks to Andy De George for contributing this!

Win2D version 1.17.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. This release fixes a couple of bugs that were reported by customers on github. It also removes the “experimental” warning tag from a final set of APIs that we now consider to be stable: HDR color support *Hdr properties…

Win2D version 1.16.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. This release contains no new features, but removes the “experimental” warning tag from an additional set of APIs that we now consider to be stable: CanvasImage CanvasVirtualBitmap CanvasVirtualBitmapOptions CanvasVirtualControl CanvasVirtualImageSource CanvasRegionsInvalidatedEventArgs PixelShaderEffect SamplerCoordinateMapping CanvasPrintDocument CanvasPrintTaskOptionsChangedEventArgs CanvasPreviewEventArgs CanvasPrintEventArgs CanvasPrintDeferral CanvasDevice:…

Back in September 2014 when first introducing Win2D, we said: “By no means is the API in its current state a complete representation of Direct2D in Windows Runtime. We believe that releasing the API early, even if it does not have all the Direct2D features, is useful. As a developer and potential user of the…

Win2D version 1.14.0 is now available on NuGet (for Windows 10 or Windows / Phone 8.1) and GitHub. New features: New CanvasTextAnalyzer methods for low level, customized text processing (check out the Custom Text Layouts example to see them in action) AnalyzeBidi AnalyzeBreakpoints AnalyzeGlyphOrientations AnalyzeNumberSubstitutions GetJustificationOpportunities ApplyJustificationOpportunities AddGlyphsAfterJustification Query a CanvasFontFace for its typographic features and glyph…